From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   John Levine  wrote:   
      
   >>>The US does not recognize renunciation of US nationality unless it is   
   >>>done freely in front of a US consular official (or due to voluntary   
   >>>service in another nation's armed forces).  In particular, we reject any   
   >>>renunciation done as a condition of gaining another nationality, e.g. as   
   >>>part of an oath of citizenship.   
      
   >>I think that's an income tax thing.   
      
   >No, it was Afroyim v. Rusk, a Supreme Court decision in 1967, which reversed   
   >several other decisions going back to 1898 and said the only way to lose US   
   >citizenship is to voluntarily renounce it.   
      
   >Since then the Congress has indeed passed a bunch of laws that make it   
   >hard to renounce your citizenship, and demand large payments to   
   >compensate for all the taxes a nonresident would presumably stop   
   >paying.   
      
   So you're saying it's like a tax law thing.   
      
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